WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 Frontier Town, the saga of the roaring west. 00:09.000 --> 00:10.000 Frontier Town. 00:11.000 --> 00:14.000 El Paso, Cheyenne, Calgary, Tombstone. 00:16.000 --> 00:18.000 Frontier Town. 00:18.000 --> 00:22.000 Here is the adventurous story of the early west, the tamed and the untamed. 00:22.000 --> 00:25.000 From the Pecos to Powder River, Dodge City to Poker Flat. 00:25.000 --> 00:29.000 These are the towns they fought to live in and lived to fight for. 00:29.000 --> 00:32.000 Teeming crucibles of pioneer freedom. 00:32.000 --> 00:48.000 Frontier Town. 01:02.000 --> 01:24.000 Frontier Town. 01:24.000 --> 01:25.000 Howdy. 01:25.000 --> 01:32.000 Scrawling boisterously across the rawhide tough frontier is the little town of Dos Rios. 01:32.000 --> 01:34.000 Not much of a town to be sure. 01:34.000 --> 01:39.000 A few stores, a church, the start of what someday will be a school. 01:39.000 --> 01:43.000 Nine saloons and one so-called lawyer. 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 The lawyer's name is Chad Remington. 01:46.000 --> 01:47.000 That's me. 01:47.000 --> 01:51.000 Of course there's not enough law business in the whole county to keep me busy, 01:51.000 --> 01:54.000 but I do own a ranch left to me by my dad when he died. 01:54.000 --> 01:58.000 Naturally there wouldn't be a lawyer in Dos Rios if we didn't have a court. 01:58.000 --> 02:02.000 And with the court it goes without saying we have a judge. 02:02.000 --> 02:07.000 Judge Fillmore, whose daughter Libby happens to be a most special favorite of mine. 02:07.000 --> 02:10.000 Well with the lack of law business one day not so long ago, 02:10.000 --> 02:15.000 the judge and I decided to see what we could do about getting ourselves some wild turkeys. 02:15.000 --> 02:24.000 Oh he saddled up a couple of my horses, took two of my best rifles and started scouting. 02:24.000 --> 02:27.000 Nice shooting Chad. You got yourself two gobblers. 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 You call that nice shooting, judge? 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 Shot four times and only got two birds. 02:32.000 --> 02:36.000 And that's what a fella gets for spending too much time practicing law 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 and not enough time practicing with a Winchester. 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 Two out of four. 02:40.000 --> 02:44.000 Well if you can keep as good an average hitting the bullseye for your clients, 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 they should have no complaints. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 Clients? I haven't seen one in a month. 02:48.000 --> 02:51.000 You don't mind my representing you Chad. 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 Never admit to a man who might be your future father-in-law 02:54.000 --> 03:00.000 that you can't keep his daughter in the style to which she hopes to become accustomed. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 That's good advice judge. 03:02.000 --> 03:07.000 And I'll be happy to pay your fee if my future father-in-law gives his consent someday. 03:07.000 --> 03:11.000 I better be picking up those two toms before the buzzards get to... 03:11.000 --> 03:13.000 Who's this coming? 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 I see someone coming all right, but without my glasses... 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 It's no wonder you only bag one turkey. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 That's Tim Brackett. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 You know, the young puncher who works over at the JLACL. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.000 Hey Tim! 03:23.000 --> 03:25.000 Howdy Chad, judge. 03:25.000 --> 03:26.000 Well, howdy. 03:26.000 --> 03:29.000 Riding all over with Patty's half acre looking for you. 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 Cherokee told me you're probably out here on a turkey hunt. 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 You're looking for us? 03:33.000 --> 03:36.000 Well, I guess either one of you alone would have been all right. 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 Got a legal question I'd like answered. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 Well, see judge, business is picking up. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 What's on your mind son? 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 Well, it's just... 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 Just something I... 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 Well, I made a bet with a fella. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 No one can legally force you to pay a bet, Tim. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 No, that isn't what I mean, judge. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 Let's suppose a fella... 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 Some fella, borrowed ten thousand dollars on his ranch. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 Uh-huh, some fella. 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 Yeah, yeah, some fella. 04:02.000 --> 04:06.000 Well, suppose this fella paid all of it but two thousand dollars... 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 And then couldn't pay the two thousand right off. 04:08.000 --> 04:11.000 Could the man with the mortgage take the ranch away from him? 04:11.000 --> 04:16.000 It might sound inequitable, but legally, until every last cent is paid, 04:16.000 --> 04:20.000 interest in all, the lender can foreclose and take possession of the property. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 That's a fine thing. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Lose your bet? 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 Yeah, sure did lose my bet. 04:26.000 --> 04:30.000 Well, if you didn't bet your month's wages, there's no reason to commit suicide on that. 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 Look, I just hate myself for doing this, but could one of you lend me a little money? 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 Well, I don't know. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 How much money is a little money, Tim? 04:38.000 --> 04:41.000 Oh, twenty, twenty-five dollars. 04:41.000 --> 04:45.000 As long as you're going to have to owe somebody, why not owe the man you lost the bet to? 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 Well, it's not for him. 04:47.000 --> 04:50.000 It's for my sister. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 For your sister, huh? 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 I never heard you talk about a sister before. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Matter of fact, neither did I. 04:56.000 --> 04:57.000 You mean you ain't gonna let me have it? 04:57.000 --> 05:02.000 Not at all. If you give me a word that what you need the money for is strictly legitimate, 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 I guess I can scrape it up. 05:04.000 --> 05:09.000 Chad, word of honor, I need twenty-five dollars to help out my sister. 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 That's good enough for me, Tim. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 Here you are. Don't go losing it riding back to town. 05:15.000 --> 05:20.000 You bet. See, I'll wrap it up and put it right here in this buckskin pouch in my pocket. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Good, and don't forget there's no particular hurry about paying it back. 05:23.000 --> 05:29.000 Hey, uh, I'm sure not much at speech making, but thanks, Chad. 05:29.000 --> 05:31.000 Thanks from the bottom of my heart. 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 Get up there, boy. Let's go. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 Here you are. 05:37.000 --> 05:39.000 Chad, do you think you should have given that boy the money 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 without finding out exactly what he needed it for? 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 Well, he said he needed it for his sister, and that certainly was good enough for... 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 Hey, wait a minute. He must have dropped something when he pulled out that pouch. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 You see it there? 05:54.000 --> 05:57.000 What is it, Chad? What is that piece of paper? 05:57.000 --> 06:01.000 This piece of paper is a letter from the return address on the envelope. 06:01.000 --> 06:05.000 The boy has got a sister. Lives over in the next county in Dry Wells. 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 Well, I'll be darned. 06:07.000 --> 06:12.000 I didn't believe that story about his sister being in trouble, but apparently it's true. 06:12.000 --> 06:16.000 You think maybe under the circumstances that we ought to open that letter 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 and see what the trouble is? 06:18.000 --> 06:22.000 If the girl's in real trouble, certainly $25 isn't going to cure it. 06:22.000 --> 06:25.000 All right, Judge, what do you say we read the letter and find out? 06:25.000 --> 06:30.000 Certainly. If she needs more money, maybe we can do something to be of real help. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 Here goes. 06:36.000 --> 06:40.000 Find a lot of good that $25 can do his sister. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 And it was his sister he was talking about, Chad? 06:42.000 --> 06:46.000 Yep. When her father was alive, he borrowed $10,000 on their ranch. 06:46.000 --> 06:50.000 It's paid down to $2,000 now, and she can't meet that. 06:50.000 --> 06:55.000 Judge, I've got a notion we'd better hightail it over to the J Lazy L and find Tim. 06:55.000 --> 07:00.000 The rest of this story may be interesting, very interesting. 07:07.000 --> 07:11.000 Nobody at the J Lazy L knew where Tim was. He'd taken the day off. 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 So the judge and I headed back toward town. 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 When we got to Dos Rios, the judge went home. 07:17.000 --> 07:22.000 I went up to the offices I keep, located over at Cherokee O'Bannon's livery stable. 07:22.000 --> 07:27.000 Cherokee, not only my landlord and sidekick, but also a former medicine man, 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 was gnashing his teeth over my letting $25 slip through my fingers so easily. 07:31.000 --> 07:36.000 Of all the impoverished, impugnious imbecility, you take the cake, Chad. 07:36.000 --> 07:38.000 Well, I've got a sweet tooth. I like cake. 07:38.000 --> 07:42.000 Well, if you would direct your ill-amont-a-sary instincts in the proper direction, 07:42.000 --> 07:46.000 one-fifth of that amount would have set them up for everybody down at my favorite hostel raid, 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 the Lady Luck Bar and Grill. 07:48.000 --> 07:53.000 Instead of ranting that way, Cherokee, and worrying about your constantly unquenched thirst, 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 you might give some thought to where we could find Tim. 07:55.000 --> 07:59.000 First, you give him legal advice. Then, instead of charging him for it, you... 08:01.000 --> 08:05.000 What did you stop for, Cherokee? What are you staring at out the window? 08:05.000 --> 08:08.000 Unless this is an optical illusion. 08:08.000 --> 08:15.000 The most ravishing and pulchritutious bit of femininity is about to come up the stairs to visit you, you bucolic blackstone. 08:15.000 --> 08:18.000 Absolutely stunning, Chad. 08:18.000 --> 08:19.000 What an eye. 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 What a girl. 08:21.000 --> 08:22.000 Come in. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 Which one of you gentlemen is Mr. Remington? 08:25.000 --> 08:28.000 Well, I am. Cherokee, get the young lady a chair. 08:28.000 --> 08:32.000 Just what I was about to do. Here, won't you please sit down? 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 Thanks. Thanks so much. 08:35.000 --> 08:37.000 Mr. Remington, my name is Emily Brackett. 08:37.000 --> 08:41.000 Brackett? Well, like I always say, it's a small world after all. 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 We were just talking about another Brackett. 08:44.000 --> 08:47.000 A young cowboy over here, Tim Brackett. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 Fine, upstanding lad. 08:49.000 --> 08:50.000 Tim's my brother. 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 Well, it is a small world, isn't it? 08:52.000 --> 08:56.000 They told me out at the jail, Lazy-L, that you'd been out there a while ago looking for Tim. 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 I thought you might know where I could find him. 08:58.000 --> 09:03.000 At the moment, I don't, Miss Brackett. But while you're here, I have a confession to make. 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 Yes? 09:04.000 --> 09:09.000 I read a letter you wrote to Tim about, well, about the money owing on your ranch. 09:09.000 --> 09:13.000 Well, he probably showed it to you because he wanted some legal advice. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Well, that wasn't actually the reason. 09:15.000 --> 09:21.000 But now that I think about it, I have an idea your brother's headed for something which might bring a bit of trouble. 09:21.000 --> 09:22.000 Trouble? 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 Cherokee, you're a man of the world. 09:24.000 --> 09:27.000 Indeed I am, my boy. Pride myself on it. 09:27.000 --> 09:35.000 If you needed $2,000 and didn't know how to raise it, and providing, of course, someone would lend you $25, 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 what would you do with the money you'd borrowed? 09:37.000 --> 09:45.000 Well, since it wouldn't take $25 to drown my sorrows, I might be inclined to risk it in the game of stud poker 09:45.000 --> 09:50.000 to see if I could run a double eagle up into some of the long green folding type money. 09:50.000 --> 09:53.000 You mean that my brother borrowed $25 to gamble? 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 I don't mean anything yet, Miss Emily. 09:55.000 --> 09:59.000 But if you'll sit right here, there are only nine places in town where he could gamble. 09:59.000 --> 10:03.000 And Cherokee and I are going out and see if we can find that young man. 10:03.000 --> 10:14.000 Staying in the pot, Tim? 10:14.000 --> 10:18.000 You blame right I am, Duke. Staying in and raising you another $20. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 Hey, you must have another king in the hole, huh? 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 What do you mean by that, Duke? 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 What do you mean? What do I mean? 10:25.000 --> 10:29.000 Anybody with the card showing that you have and betting the way you are must have a king buried. 10:29.000 --> 10:33.000 I always kind of suspected you could read the backs of the cards, Duke. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 Are you insinuating that I'm running a crooked game? 10:35.000 --> 10:40.000 I ain't insinuating I'm saying so. How else could you know I got a king in a hole? 10:40.000 --> 10:44.000 Tim, I've been operating in Dos Rios for six years now. 10:44.000 --> 10:49.000 No one's ever talked to me that way before. So I'm asking you to pick up your money and get out. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 Who are you trying to bluff? 10:51.000 --> 10:54.000 I'm not bluffing, Tim. I'm telling you to clear out of the game. 10:54.000 --> 10:58.000 Yeah? Well, if I leave the game, I'm taking the pot with me. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 In a square game, I don't want it. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Duke, take your hands off that money. 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 Tim, don't act loco. You go reaching for your gun and... 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 Stop running back, man. That loco's getting a drill in the line. 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 Here, let me through here, will you? Excuse me. 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 Now, get back here. Come on. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 Duke, who plugged him? 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 I did, Chad. 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 Why, you lowdown, double-doubting... 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 Now, just a minute before you both go shooting off your mouths. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 Why don't you ask someone who was here what happened? 11:29.000 --> 11:33.000 It was Tim's fault, Chad. He called Duke a cheat and a liar and then went through his guy. 11:33.000 --> 11:35.000 And that's gospel. 11:35.000 --> 11:39.000 I tried to stop him, but when he threw down on me, there was only one thing I could do. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 I guess I did it. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 Yeah, I guess you did. 11:44.000 --> 11:48.000 All right, some of you men, pick Tim up and take him over to the... 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 to the undertakers. 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 Oh, Chad. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 Chad. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 If only you'd gotten there just a little earlier. 11:56.000 --> 12:00.000 Believe me, Miss Brackett. You've got to try to get hold of yourself. 12:00.000 --> 12:04.000 Unfortunately, all the grief in the world isn't going to bring your brother back. 12:04.000 --> 12:08.000 You just say the word, Miss, and I'll fill that thieving gambler so full of lead 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 that he'll bust right through the floor and bury himself right there. 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 You can save yourself all that trouble, Cherokee. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 I'll be right back. 12:16.000 --> 12:20.000 After I've had a chance to talk to a few men who were in there 12:20.000 --> 12:24.000 and I find out what actually happened, I may take care of Duke. 12:24.000 --> 12:26.000 I'll give him a chance to take care of me. 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 Oh, no. You've done all you should already. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 Don't go back down there. 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 I've got to, Miss Emily. 12:32.000 --> 12:35.000 That's got to be finished before we worry about your ranch. 12:35.000 --> 12:38.000 If there's anything I can do, you're not going to lose your place 12:38.000 --> 12:46.000 to a money-grubbing loan shark for 20 cents on the dollar. 12:46.000 --> 12:52.000 We'll return to the exciting second act of our frontier town adventure 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 in just about one minute. 12:54.000 --> 13:16.000 GUITAR MUSIC 13:24.000 --> 13:37.000 And now Frontier Town. 13:37.000 --> 13:43.160 From all I've noticed, death, sudden and brutal death, is as shocking in a frontier town as 13:43.160 --> 13:45.480 any place else in the country. 13:45.480 --> 13:50.040 But somehow on the frontier, folks seem better able to pull themselves together and go on 13:50.040 --> 13:52.400 with the things that have to be done. 13:52.400 --> 13:56.640 And so it was that Emily Brackett, over her first shock at her brother Tim's killing, 13:56.640 --> 14:00.440 had regained some of her composure and was able to answer a few questions. 14:00.440 --> 14:03.640 Well, that's about all there is to it, Chad. 14:03.640 --> 14:07.080 Everybody around our part of the country had always borrowed from old Sam Tennyson and 14:07.080 --> 14:08.960 never had any trouble. 14:08.960 --> 14:13.080 It wasn't until Mr. Tennyson died that the man who took over all of his loans began to 14:13.080 --> 14:15.400 foreclose in wholesale lots. 14:15.400 --> 14:18.280 When you say, took over all his loans, what do you mean by that? 14:18.280 --> 14:23.360 I mean, well, I don't know exactly, but this Mr. Sturges bought the mortgages from Sam 14:23.360 --> 14:25.120 Tennyson's estate, I guess. 14:25.120 --> 14:27.400 Eh, sounds crooked to me. 14:27.400 --> 14:28.400 Estate? 14:28.400 --> 14:31.160 Did Tennyson have any heirs, sons or daughters? 14:31.160 --> 14:34.640 He had a son, but he died a few weeks later in an accident. 14:34.640 --> 14:36.440 A bridge he was riding over collapsed. 14:36.440 --> 14:37.440 Convenient, wasn't it? 14:37.440 --> 14:39.440 For Sturges, I mean. 14:39.440 --> 14:40.440 What? 14:40.440 --> 14:42.800 How many ranches has his Sturges foreclosed on already? 14:42.800 --> 14:46.520 Oh, goodness, I don't know, but I guess there isn't a part of the valley he doesn't own 14:46.520 --> 14:47.520 some acreage in. 14:47.520 --> 14:51.080 Well, I think we've imposed on you enough, Miss Emily. 14:51.080 --> 14:54.480 Right now we still have a little unfinished business to take care of. 14:54.480 --> 15:01.320 Business with Duke Rafferty. 15:01.320 --> 15:05.680 Leaving the Judge, Libby and Cherokee to take care of Emily Brackett, I started out to see 15:05.680 --> 15:10.800 that Duke Rafferty, the gambler, paid for the wanton killing of Tim Brackett. 15:10.800 --> 15:16.320 So like any lawyer, I began asking questions to get the proof which would support my case. 15:16.320 --> 15:21.840 When I'd asked about half a dozen people who'd been in the so-called cafe, I wasted little 15:21.840 --> 15:26.360 time going over and paying a call on Mr. Rafferty in person. 15:26.360 --> 15:28.440 What do you want to see me about, Remington? 15:28.440 --> 15:29.440 You'll find out, Duke. 15:29.440 --> 15:31.960 You've got to stick your nose in everybody's business, huh? 15:31.960 --> 15:35.080 At the moment, all I'd like to do is see you alone. 15:35.080 --> 15:36.960 Yeah, you lawyers. 15:36.960 --> 15:40.400 Come on. 15:40.400 --> 15:42.200 Let's go into my private office. 15:42.200 --> 15:43.200 Thanks. 15:43.200 --> 15:44.200 Okay. 15:44.200 --> 15:46.920 Now, what do you want? 15:46.920 --> 15:52.320 Duke, I've made it my business to talk to half a dozen men who witnessed Tim's killing. 15:52.320 --> 15:55.600 But it didn't take long to learn that Tim threatened you. 15:55.600 --> 15:59.200 Even though you tried to stop him, it was the kid who cleared his holster first. 15:59.200 --> 16:04.040 Well, you led me worried for a minute. 16:04.040 --> 16:08.720 You know, you've got a reputation and a pair of eyes that throw a cold chill into a man. 16:08.720 --> 16:10.880 Well, you can relax. 16:10.880 --> 16:15.360 They tell me Tim Brackett accused you of using a mock deck. 16:15.360 --> 16:17.680 I think you know better than that, Chad. 16:17.680 --> 16:18.680 Check. 16:18.680 --> 16:21.240 Now, how about doing me a favor? 16:21.240 --> 16:23.320 Name your own game, Chad. 16:23.320 --> 16:26.760 Running a place like this, I imagine you've met a lot of the fly-by-night gents in this 16:26.760 --> 16:28.160 part of the country. 16:28.160 --> 16:32.000 I was wondering if you could give me a line on the character over in Dry Wells in the 16:32.000 --> 16:35.240 next county, a big money man by the name of Sturgis. 16:35.240 --> 16:36.240 K.C. Sturgis? 16:36.240 --> 16:37.240 Oh, K.C.? 16:37.240 --> 16:38.240 I don't know. 16:38.240 --> 16:40.760 All I know is the name Sturgis. 16:40.760 --> 16:41.760 What does K.C. mean? 16:41.760 --> 16:45.640 Well, if it is the same maverick, I know that K.C.'s a nickname. 16:45.640 --> 16:47.560 Stands for Kansas City. 16:47.560 --> 16:50.840 That's where he came from originally before he started to work the small towns along the 16:50.840 --> 16:53.200 Pecos, the mining camps through Colorado. 16:53.200 --> 16:55.400 Work the mining camps, eh? 16:55.400 --> 16:56.400 What is he, a gambler? 16:56.400 --> 16:59.400 Well, he gambles, but he doesn't make his living at it. 16:59.400 --> 17:01.600 What does he do to make a living? 17:01.600 --> 17:02.600 K.C.? 17:02.600 --> 17:04.600 Does anything and anybody. 17:04.600 --> 17:06.600 All he is, Chad, is a confidence man. 17:06.600 --> 17:08.600 Confidence man, is he? 17:08.600 --> 17:10.360 That's very interesting, Duke. 17:10.360 --> 17:13.320 How in the name of Hannah did you ever get mixed up with a gent like that? 17:13.320 --> 17:17.720 I'm not mixed up with him yet, but now that you've given me this little rundown on him, 17:17.720 --> 17:21.280 I've got a notion it won't be very long before I am mixed up with him. 17:21.280 --> 17:22.280 Plenty. 17:22.280 --> 17:31.240 Great gilded glory, Chad. 17:31.240 --> 17:34.880 What conceivable difference can it make if Sturgis is a confidence man? 17:34.880 --> 17:39.080 It may make the difference between being able to save Miss Emily's ranch or having Sturgis 17:39.080 --> 17:41.800 take it over for the few thousand dollars still owing on it. 17:41.800 --> 17:44.920 Chad, as far as I'm concerned, you haven't answered Cherokee's question. 17:44.920 --> 17:46.960 I guess you're right, Judge. 17:46.960 --> 17:50.960 But if Cherokee is willing to ride over the dry wells with us and indulge in a little 17:50.960 --> 17:53.720 acting, I've got what might be a bright idea. 17:53.720 --> 17:56.160 No, I'm more confused. 17:56.160 --> 17:57.760 Confidence man and acting man? 17:57.760 --> 17:59.320 Well, all right then. 17:59.320 --> 18:00.960 Here it is in a nutshell. 18:00.960 --> 18:07.140 If Mr. K.C. Sturgis is a confidence man and if you introduce Cherokee to him as your wealthy 18:07.140 --> 18:12.160 uncle from the East who's come out to visit you, I think Sturgis will forego your ranch 18:12.160 --> 18:14.880 temporarily and make a play for the larger stakes. 18:14.880 --> 18:18.440 Chad, I'm afraid you'd make a non-successful impresario. 18:18.440 --> 18:19.440 Me a multi-millionaire? 18:19.440 --> 18:25.320 Why, even with my astounding amount of histrionic ability, I'm afraid that's a characterization 18:25.320 --> 18:29.920 at this late date too far beyond my impercunious experience. 18:29.920 --> 18:36.160 Cherokee, with a little expert coaching, we'll have you lighting your cigars with $20 bills. 18:36.160 --> 18:41.640 And I must say, Chad, although your proposal is slightly extra-legal, it sounds as if it 18:41.640 --> 18:44.080 might work on a confidence man. 18:44.080 --> 18:47.960 Well, there's an old saying, judge takes a crook to catch a crook. 18:47.960 --> 18:51.120 Sir, am I to infer that you're branding me a crook? 18:51.120 --> 18:52.800 Oh, not on your life, Cherokee. 18:52.800 --> 18:55.440 I convict no man till he's proven guilty. 18:55.440 --> 19:00.280 Why, until I see you in action in dry wells, I'm not even calling you an actor. 19:00.280 --> 19:10.520 Well, we got to dry wells the next day and moved bag and baggage into the spare room 19:10.520 --> 19:12.920 in Emily Brackett's little ranch house. 19:12.920 --> 19:15.880 Then she sent word to Sturgis that she wanted to see him. 19:15.880 --> 19:19.960 When we saw Sturgis arriving, I suddenly remembered something I hadn't thought of before. 19:19.960 --> 19:20.960 That Sturgis? 19:20.960 --> 19:22.640 Just riding into the gate now, Chad. 19:22.640 --> 19:23.640 Oh, good. 19:23.640 --> 19:26.920 Then in that case, the judge and I had better go into the kitchen while Cherokee demonstrates 19:26.920 --> 19:27.920 his histrionic ability. 19:27.920 --> 19:28.920 Oh, good God. 19:28.920 --> 19:30.720 So one thing we hadn't thought of. 19:30.720 --> 19:31.720 What's that, Chad? 19:31.720 --> 19:32.720 Cherokee's name. 19:32.720 --> 19:36.440 Emily can't introduce him to Sturgis as her uncle Cherokee. 19:36.440 --> 19:37.720 What is your right name, Cherokee? 19:37.720 --> 19:38.720 My, uh, my... 19:38.720 --> 19:40.000 Come on, come on. 19:40.000 --> 19:41.480 Sturgis is almost on the porch now. 19:41.480 --> 19:43.920 Surely your parents gave you a name when you were born. 19:43.920 --> 19:45.920 Yes, they did. 19:45.920 --> 19:48.840 And I still hate my revered painter for it. 19:48.840 --> 19:53.840 My name, my cognomim, my handle is Aloysius. 19:53.840 --> 20:04.280 So you see, Mr. Sturgis, when Uncle Al got my letter asking for the $2,000 I still owe 20:04.280 --> 20:07.000 you, he simply packed up and came right out here. 20:07.000 --> 20:12.440 It was 2,000, but it's more than that now with the interest in default charges. 20:12.440 --> 20:15.760 My, good fellow, what difference can that make? 20:15.760 --> 20:18.920 What difference can a few thousand make one way or another? 20:18.920 --> 20:19.920 No nephew? 20:19.920 --> 20:22.440 I mean, whatever a she-male nephew's called. 20:22.440 --> 20:24.200 Niece, I'm your niece. 20:24.200 --> 20:25.400 Thank you, Emily. 20:25.400 --> 20:29.120 No relative of mine is going to lose a ranch for a few paltry dollars. 20:29.120 --> 20:32.200 When I've got so much, I've got to keep it in three banks. 20:32.200 --> 20:34.440 In three banks? 20:34.440 --> 20:36.280 Three banks and a private bought. 20:36.280 --> 20:37.280 What? 20:37.280 --> 20:41.480 Well, having been in the furniture business all my life, nose to the grindstone and all 20:41.480 --> 20:45.640 that, it's always been my dream to come out west. 20:45.640 --> 20:48.520 Out west for bitter men and gold is where you find it. 20:48.520 --> 20:53.240 I've known people before to come out from the east looking for gold and lose everything 20:53.240 --> 20:54.920 they had, but... 20:54.920 --> 20:59.600 Mr. Sturgist, if you're meaning to discourage me, you're not succeeding. 20:59.600 --> 21:04.240 Because if I can find a suitable piece of gold-bearing land, I am prepared to pay upwards 21:04.240 --> 21:06.120 of $50,000 for it. 21:06.120 --> 21:07.560 Uncle, really, you should. 21:07.560 --> 21:09.680 Now, just a minute, Miss Braggart. 21:09.680 --> 21:11.480 Your uncle's a successful businessman. 21:11.480 --> 21:13.320 I'm sure he knows what he's doing. 21:13.320 --> 21:17.040 And if you're real serious about wanting a piece of gold-bearing property, sir, I know 21:17.040 --> 21:18.760 of one that's got a fortune on it. 21:18.760 --> 21:23.720 And I wouldn't be at all surprised if I couldn't get it for, well, for a little more than the 21:23.720 --> 21:25.240 figure you have in mind. 21:25.240 --> 21:27.400 Buy on figures. 21:27.400 --> 21:28.400 Take me to the property. 21:28.400 --> 21:31.960 And if I like it, I'll give you a draft on my bank. 21:31.960 --> 21:32.960 At least on one of them. 21:32.960 --> 21:36.560 Well, look, I'd better check up on this land first and see if it's still available. 21:36.560 --> 21:41.240 And if it is, I'll show you the most valuable piece of gold-bearing property since the mother 21:41.240 --> 21:49.400 load was discovered. 21:49.400 --> 21:53.520 Well if it doesn't take a crook to catch a crook, it certainly took an actor to bait 21:53.520 --> 21:56.120 the trap to catch the crook that time. 21:56.120 --> 21:59.920 Sturges practically ran for his horse and headed for town with the judge and myself 21:59.920 --> 22:01.840 trailing incautiously. 22:01.840 --> 22:05.480 And there, after a while, we saw him come out of a mining claim office and head out 22:05.480 --> 22:07.360 toward the desert. 22:07.360 --> 22:13.320 About seven miles out of town, with nothing around but rocks, cactus, and Joshua trees, 22:13.320 --> 22:18.800 the judge and I saw Sturges dismount, kneel down, and burrow under some of the rocks. 22:18.800 --> 22:22.320 We didn't wait for him to mount up again, but we circled the location and came back 22:22.320 --> 22:23.980 afterwards. 22:23.980 --> 22:28.120 Late that afternoon, we saw him again approaching the spot in the buckboard, carrying Emily 22:28.120 --> 22:30.120 and Cherokee wood. 22:30.120 --> 22:38.520 Well, Al, my boy, here's the problem. 22:38.520 --> 22:39.520 Here's where we get off. 22:39.520 --> 22:47.840 Well, this is certainly picturesque, Sturges, but there's nothing here but desert. 22:47.840 --> 22:49.720 That's the beauty of it. 22:49.720 --> 22:53.560 That's why you can pick it up for 80 or 90 thousand, why nobody even thinks it's gold 22:53.560 --> 22:54.680 out here. 22:54.680 --> 22:58.280 And just to show you the fortune that's here, suppose you just stoop down and look under 22:58.280 --> 22:59.280 any of these rocks. 22:59.280 --> 23:00.280 You think I should, don't you? 23:00.280 --> 23:01.280 Go on, Al, go on. 23:01.280 --> 23:02.280 It won't bite you. 23:02.280 --> 23:03.280 Well, all right. 23:03.280 --> 23:09.560 Well, there's nothing under this rock but a lot of crawling worms. 23:09.560 --> 23:10.560 Let me see. 23:10.560 --> 23:15.880 Oh, that's funny. 23:15.880 --> 23:16.880 Let's look over here. 23:16.880 --> 23:19.640 There's surely a few nuggets under this rock. 23:19.640 --> 23:25.960 There aren't even crawling worms under that one. 23:25.960 --> 23:29.760 Mr. Sturges, I have a feeling you brought me out here on a fool's errand. 23:29.760 --> 23:31.480 Why, there's no more gold here than a... 23:31.480 --> 23:34.080 Oh, look, Uncle Al, isn't this Chad coming? 23:34.080 --> 23:35.080 Chad? 23:35.080 --> 23:36.080 Who is he? 23:36.080 --> 23:38.080 He's a friend of my brother's over in Dos Rios. 23:38.080 --> 23:41.080 Looking for us, Chad? 23:41.080 --> 23:45.360 Oh, fellas, hold it right there. 23:45.360 --> 23:46.360 They told me it's your place. 23:46.360 --> 23:48.880 You've written out this way, so we trailed you. 23:48.880 --> 23:52.280 I'm glad to say I've got just about enough for you to pay off your loan. 23:52.280 --> 23:55.160 Well, this is really a coincidence. 23:55.160 --> 23:57.880 This is Mr. Sturges, the man who holds the mortgage. 23:57.880 --> 23:59.200 Oh, howdy, Sturges. 23:59.200 --> 24:03.040 I don't suppose you mind if I haven't got it in cash, but if you want to go back to town, 24:03.040 --> 24:05.280 the bank will give you money for these gold nuggets. 24:05.280 --> 24:06.280 Gold nuggets? 24:06.280 --> 24:07.280 Let me see them. 24:07.280 --> 24:08.280 Sure. 24:08.280 --> 24:09.280 Here you are. 24:09.280 --> 24:12.280 Why, you low-down crook. 24:12.280 --> 24:13.280 Where'd you get these nuggets? 24:13.280 --> 24:14.400 What difference can that make? 24:14.400 --> 24:15.920 I told you the bank would take them. 24:15.920 --> 24:17.760 You double-dealing buzzard, you stole them. 24:17.760 --> 24:18.760 Stole them right from here. 24:18.760 --> 24:20.280 Oh, how come you know where I got them? 24:20.280 --> 24:21.280 How do I know? 24:21.280 --> 24:22.280 Because I put them here, but... 24:22.280 --> 24:26.360 Well, you know because you put them here yourself. 24:26.360 --> 24:30.520 You salted this little piece of land and were ready to sell it as a gold mine. 24:30.520 --> 24:31.520 What? 24:31.520 --> 24:33.680 Trying to dupe me by cheap ticanery? 24:33.680 --> 24:35.440 That's nothing but a lie. 24:35.440 --> 24:36.440 You can't prove that. 24:36.440 --> 24:38.280 Oh, no, can we prove that, Judge, or can't we? 24:38.280 --> 24:42.920 In any court in the land, because both of us saw this confidence man ride out here and 24:42.920 --> 24:45.080 plant the nuggets right before our eyes. 24:45.080 --> 24:46.080 You double-crossing... 24:46.080 --> 24:52.600 Don't close both of his eyes, Chad. 24:52.600 --> 24:55.880 He's got to have one good one when he signs that release. 24:55.880 --> 24:57.680 Don't worry, Cherokee. 24:57.680 --> 25:05.040 I'm only gonna dot one eye and one chin. 25:05.040 --> 25:10.840 And now, now, Mr. Sturges, you can either get up yourself or I'll help you up. 25:10.840 --> 25:15.280 Because we're all going back to the Bracket Ranch where you'll sign a receipt for payment 25:15.280 --> 25:17.520 and proof of the balance of that mortgage. 25:17.520 --> 25:20.720 What are you talking about? 25:20.720 --> 25:22.880 You just admitted those nuggets were mine. 25:22.880 --> 25:27.440 They were, but there's a law that says finders keepers. 25:27.440 --> 25:32.280 And another law in anyone's courtroom which says a confidence man can be sentenced to 25:32.280 --> 25:34.560 from 15 to 20 years in jail. 25:34.560 --> 25:37.400 Well, how about it, Sturges? 25:37.400 --> 25:39.560 You coming back with us and signing that release? 25:39.560 --> 25:40.560 All right, all right. 25:40.560 --> 25:46.360 I know when I'm left, give me a chance to get my breath with her. 25:46.360 --> 25:51.120 Listen, you faker, I'm going to give you a better chance than you would have given me. 25:51.120 --> 25:56.320 It so happens that in my hip pocket, I have a bottle of my genuine Cherokee Indian rattlesnake 25:56.320 --> 25:57.320 oil. 25:57.320 --> 26:01.280 One mouthful of that for you and one for me and we'll all be able to ride back... 26:01.280 --> 26:02.960 Now, just a minute, Cherokee. 26:02.960 --> 26:05.520 We've agreed on the punishment for this crime. 26:05.520 --> 26:09.880 And we're not forcing Sturges to drink that alcoholic loco juice of yours unless we catch 26:09.880 --> 26:12.600 him on 10 counts of attempted murder. 26:12.600 --> 26:14.920 Chad, that's the most unfair... 26:14.920 --> 26:41.560 I'm going to go on with my life. 26:44.920 --> 27:13.320 I'm going to go on with my life. 27:13.320 --> 27:19.240 Frontier Town starring Tex Chandler as a Bruce Ells production, supervision by Joel Murcott, 27:19.240 --> 27:23.600 story and direction by Paul Franklin, music written and played by Ivan Ditmar. 27:23.600 --> 27:31.480 Be sure to be with us again same time next week for another fine action adventure story 27:31.480 --> 27:34.440 with your favorite young Western star, Tex Chandler. 27:34.440 --> 27:57.400 And now this is Bill Foreman telling you that Frontier Town came to you from Hollywood. 27:57.400 --> 28:06.560 Thank you.